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Philippa Horton, Senior Collection Manager, Birds, South Australian Birds (last update September 2013) Philippa Horton, vs Inland Thornbills (Acanthiza pusilla and A. apicalis), have meant that in regions where these species abut Senior Collection Manager, Birds, or overlap some relatively arbitrary decisions have South Australian Museum been made to include certain records or not. Other species show seasonal or irregular dispersive movements Brian Blaylock, that are not yet reliably established or depicted on South Australian Museum; the maps. Finally, it should be noted that while the distribution maps are reasonably comprehensive, they Secretary, Birds SA do not include all records such as the numerous sight records in observers’ personal field books and others Andrew Black, that are not on any of the databases accessed for this Honorary Research Associate, list. There may also be some records that have been South Australian Museum accidentally overlooked. The maps give a good indication of where species The following list includes all species of birds reliably might be encountered routinely, but on rare occasions recorded as free-living forms from South Australia during any bird species may be seen well outside its known the period of European settlement. Recorded are 303 range as depicted. In such instances the observer is non-passerines (of which seven are introduced) and 179 encouraged to contact Birds SA, SAM or DEWNR and passerines (six introduced), totalling 482 species for the to supply a description, and if possible photographs, so state. Appendix 1 at the end of this chapter includes: that the record can be assessed for possible inclusion in a) species for which records are unconfirmed or the BDBSA. Use of Birds SA’s Rare Bird Committee Record rejected, b) introduced species for which there are Report Form or BirdLife Australia’s Unusual Record Report no current, established, feral populations. Form (URRF) is encouraged. Maps Taxonomy and Nomenclature As in the first (Aslin 1985), second (Watts 1990) and Since the third edition (Robinson et al. 2000), a large third (Robinson et al. 2000) editions of this list, the volume of research, principally DNA-based, has distributional information (maps only in third edition) contributed to numerous changes in the taxonomy of has been compiled from several sources. These include Australian birds. The landmark work of Christidis and specimen data from the South Australian Museum, Boles (2008) summarised this research up to the time (SAM), and sight records from BirdLife Australia and from of its publication and we have used it as the basis for the SA Department of Environment, Water and Natural revising our list of SA species. Following Christidis and Resources (DEWNR), principally the Biological Database Boles (2008), the flow of newly published phylogenetic of South Australia (BDBSA), as detailed in the general and related studies has continued. We have assessed Introduction. For this edition a major improvement in those relevant to the SA avifauna and have made the data set has been the inclusion of all currently taxonomic and nomenclatural changes accordingly. databased records held by Birds SA (The South We have also made extensive use of web-based Australian Ornithological Association Inc). resources in making our decisions, including Zoonomen The bird distribution maps have been extensively – Birds of the World (Peterson 2011), Avibase (Lepage scrutinised in order to correct mistakes either due to 2013) and the IOC World Bird List (Gill and Donsker 2013). incorrect identification or, more frequently, to mistakes in The IOC List is a particularly useful resource because it entering data and assigning geographical coordinates. is frequently updated and provides references and links This work has largely been undertaken by members of to further information. The species and genus names we Birds SA Vetting Subcommittee (Andrew Black, Chair, use closely follow the IOC List; where they differ from the Graham Carpenter and Lynn Pedler with Colin Rogers IOC List and/or from Christidis and Boles (2008) we have and John Hatch for sea- and shore-birds), and for SAM provided explanations in Appendix 2. Notable changes records by Philippa Horton and Brian Blaylock. Sight from Christidis and Boles (2008) include the restoration records from beyond the usual range of a species are of several shearwaters from Ardenna back to Puffinus, shown on the map if adequate corroborative evidence splitting of the honeyeater genus Lichenostomus into could be obtained; if this was not available they are several genera, and raising two quailthrush subspecies not shown but are retained as unconfirmed. In other to species level. instances difficulties arising from field identification, Within each family we have arranged genera and such as the crows and ravens (Corvus spp.) and Brown species in alphabetical order. With the exception of Census of South Australian Vertebrates - SECTION 3 BIRDS Page 1 FIS 92159 Laridae and Hydrobatidae, within which subfamilies are a rapid radiation of taxa. They found several well- clearly defined, we have elected not to use subfamilies supported cladistic groupings that diverge at or because in so many instances the placement of genera near the base of the Neoaves and that ‘Metaves’ within subfamilies is uncertain. Because the scope is supported only when the ß-fibrinogen gene is of this list covers species only, we have not included included in the analysis. Of interest is the consistently subspecies for most. Exceptions are those species or supported close relationship between falcons, parrots subspecies that are included on the threatened species and passerines, also found by Ericson et al. (2006). schedules of the SA National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972. Using retroposon insertions Suh et al. (2011) also found We also include subspecies if they are widely recognised that parrots are the closest relatives of passerines, and have their own English name, e.g. Mallee Ringneck and falcons the second closest (retroposons are and Port Lincoln Parrot. jumping genetic elements that insert almost randomly in the genome and provide evidence of relatedness Higher-level Classification detectable for more than 100 million years). Morgan- Higher-level classification of birds continues to present Richards et al. (2008) tested the Metaves-Coronaves challenges but recent studies have resolved some hypothesis by analysing the complete mitochondrial major relationships. There is widespread agreement that genomes of 35 species including seven ‘metavian’ modern birds (subclass Neornithes) fall into two groups: species. They found these seven species separate into the Palaeognathae (ratites and tinamous) and the four different clades and there is no support for the Neognathae (all remaining groups), and that within the Metaves as a monophyletic group. They suggested Neognathae there is a major, early division between the that the high number of insertions/deletions within the Galloanserae (megapodes, pheasants, geese, ducks seventh intron of ß-fibrinogen resulted in artefacts during and allies) and all other birds – the Neoaves. analysis, while Mayr (2010) suggested this gene is subject to homoplasy (similarity arising from convergence). Several recent molecular studies have investigated Morgan-Richards et al. (2008) did not include parrots in relationships within the Neoaves. Fain and Houde their study but did not find a sister relationship between (2004) sequenced the seventh intron (non-coding passerines and falcons. Pratt et al. (2009) added nine region) of the nuclear ß-fibrinogen gene in one of more mitochondrial genomes to those investigated by the first studies to include representatives from most Morgan-Richards et al. (2008) and improved techniques families. They found a major division of the Neoaves for elucidating divergences and groupings. They found into two groups: Metaves (caprimulgiforms, pigeons, a major diversification of at least 12 neoavian lineages flamingos, tropicbirds, swifts, hummingbirds, grebes and in the Late Cretaceous, with parrots possibly as a basal a few other small groups) and Coronaves (remaining split, falcons sister to a clade containing other diurnal groups). Ericson et al. (2006) looked at the same gene raptors and the owls, and passerines in another well- region along with four additional ones and also found separated lineage. the same division within Neoaves. Christidis and Boles (2008) accordingly adopted this division with the result These studies plus others each provide a different that their sequence of orders is significantly different picture of neoavian phylogeny. Mayr (2010) made a from traditional classifications in placing tropicbirds, comprehensive review of morphological and molecular grebes, pigeons, caprimulgiforms and swifts in sequence studies and found that some neoavian groupings have between ducks and seabirds. widespread support (e.g. a sister relationship between owlet-nightjars and swifts with nightjars sister to both, Livezey and Zusi (2007) expressed concern that both and a close relationship between grebes and flamingos) molecular and morphological investigations were while for others their position remains uncertain (e.g. hampered by small character sets and limited taxon pigeons, and a clade containing caprimulgiforms, sampling. They made a phylogenetic analysis of 150 swifts, hummingbirds and allies). His summary hypothesis taxa of Neornithes, plus 35 outgroup taxa including shows several major clades arising from near the base of Mesozoic birds, using almost 3000 morphological
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